Playing several sequences from a video uninterrupted each after other with VLC, using windows batch file

Question

Running vlc player from a windows bat-file, I want to play several fragmentes from one and the same video file.

Up to now, I have this (just for demonstration purpose: playing video_file.mp4 from 0:15 to 0:17, then 0:45 to 0:48):

"C:[path]vlc.exe" video_file.mp4 --start-time 15 --stop-time 17 --fullscreen --video-title-timeout=0  --play-and-exit

"C:[path]vlc.exe" video_file.mp4 --start-time 45 --stop-time 48 --fullscreen --video-title-timeout=0  --play-and-exit

After each fragment, the player stops with the last frame. I have to close vlc player and it reopens automatically to play the next sequence.

However, I would like it to immediately start the next sequence: how to do that?

I tried adding the timecodes for the second sequence immediately after the first one, but that does not work. Alos deleting --play-and-exit or replacing it with --play-and-pause stops the playback.

Answer 1

Just give a try for this batch script and tell how does it works on your side ?

---

@echo off
set "VLCPathEXE=C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe"
set "videofile=video_file.mp4"
Call :PlayVideo "%videofile%" 20 30
Call :PlayVideo "%videofile%" 45 60
EXIT
::=================================================================================================================================================
:PlayVideo <VideoFile> <StartTime> <EndTime> <Duration to be Set>
set videofile=%~1
set /a "StartTime=%2"
Set /a "EndTime=%3"
echo STartTime : %StartTime%
echo EndTime   : %EndTime%
Set /a Duration=%EndTime% - %StartTime%+1
Start "" "%VLCPathEXE%" "%videofile%" --start-time %StartTime% --stop-time %EndTime% --fullscreen --video-title-timeout=0 --one-instance vlc://quit
Timeout /T %Duration% /Nobreak>nul & Taskkill /im "vlc.exe" /F
Exit /B
::=================================================================================================================================================